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A new health breakthrough has found that
combining high-pressure oxygen with the natural remedy artemisinin may provide a
new avenue for killing cancer cells. Researchers have found that the combination
could reduce the growth of cancer cells by 38%. And for those who live with
cancer, this is a great dose of health news.A new health breakthrough has found
that combining high-pressure oxygen with the natural remedy “artemisinin” may
provide a new avenue for killing cancer cells. Researchers have found that the
combination could reduce the growth of cancer cells by 38%. And for those who
live with cancer, this is a great dose of health news.

Artemisinin is a compound from wormwood
and is widely used to treat malaria. In the mid-1990s, researchers began
exploring its actions on cancer. A new study has found that an environment of
pure oxygen at over three times the normal air pressure could significantly
boost the effectiveness of artemisinin.

In the new study, using artemisinin or
high-pressure oxygen alone on human leukemia cells reduced the cancer cells’
growth by 15%. But using them in combination further dropped that growth to 38%.
That is more than a

50% increase in artemisinin’s
effectiveness. This is clearly a much better curing effect, and it was seen in
just 48 hours. Over longer periods of time, the researchers say the results
could be more dramatic.

Artemisinin is believed to have a
history of being used in medicine that dates back thousands of years to ancient
China. Its modern use is in malaria treatment in Asia and Africa. But in the
past few decades, scientists have

discovered that artemisinin reacts with
iron within a cell to form a free radical. This highly reactive particle can act
to destroy the cell. This is normally a bad thing for us, but in the case of
cancer cells, it is obviously quite positive.

Rapidly dividing cancer cells also need
iron to form new DNA. The researchers believed they would also make targets for
artemisinin. This natural remedy is an inexpensive and potentially quite
promising cancer treatment. According to the researchers, artemisinin is 100
times more specific in its treatment than chemotherapy, which essentially
carpet-bombs an entire area of the body in hopes that it kills the cancer cells
there.

The idea with oxygen is that high levels
would boost artemisinin because oxygen promotes the formation of free radicals.
In 2010, a researcher placed a Petri dish with human cancer cells in a
high-pressure oxygen chamber for two days. That led to the new results, which
may lead to further looks at how hyperbaric chambers could make cancer
treatments more effective.